Is the Chinese Type 99 main battle tank powerful

The ZTZ-99 tank is the latest domestic main battle tank currently equipped with the armored forces of our army, which made its first public appearance at the military parade marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1999, and was once known as the "Type 98".

Since the trial installation, this type of tank has been continuously improved according to the use of troops. The early Type 99 tank did not wear additional armor, and it was not until 2004 that the Type 99 turret with new reactive armor was first seen on the front page of the People's Liberation Army Daily. The current Type 99 tank is very different from the earlier models, so it is also called the "99 modification".

This type of tank has good armor protection, a crew of 3 people, a total combat weight of 50 tons, equipped with a 125 mm smoothbore gun, strong firepower, and a direct firing distance of 2,300 meters.

This type of tank has good maneuverability, with a maximum speed of 65 kilometers per hour, a maximum range of 450 kilometers, and a maximum climbing degree of 32 degrees.

The chassis of the Type 99 main battle tank is borrowed from the chassis of the former Soviet T-72 main battle tank, with a total combat weight of more than 51 tons, and the total length of the vehicle is about 10 meters, with a length of meters, a width of meters, and a height of meters. Compared with the previous domestic tanks, the geometric size of the Type 99 main battle tank is much larger, which provides conditions for accommodating 125 mm guns, high-power engines, advanced fire control systems, etc.

The Type 99 main battle tank weighs 51 tons, and with a large number of composite armor, the level of protection has made a qualitative leap compared with the 80 series tanks, reaching the level of the third-generation main battle tanks in the West.

The Type 99 main battle tank uses a traditional tank layout, with the cockpit, the fighting compartment and the power compartment from the rear compartment to the rear compartment. The driver of the Type 99 main battle tank is located in the center of the front of the hull, the commander and the gun commander are located in the fighting compartment, the gun commander is on the left, and the commander is on the right. The power transmission compartment is at the rear and is separated from the fighting compartment by an armored deck.

Unlike the traditional tanks of our army, in appearance, the turret of the Type 99 does not use the traditional oval cast turret of the Soviet style, but adopts a Western-style turret with a welded structure.

In the era of composite armor, welded turrets began to show their advantages, because they were more advantageous than the Ovo-cast turret of the T-72, which was conducive to the arrangement of composite armor modules with large thickness and large inclination. It is precisely because of the use of welded turrets that the M1A2, Leopard 2, Challenger and other Western third-generation tanks have established a protective advantage against T-72 and T-80 tanks.

Type 99 main bai battle tank world ranking.

Around the tenth:

In the row of DU names, from the first to the tenth are: DAO1, the United States M1A1 main battle tank back.

2. German Leopard A-2A6 main battle tank.

3. British Challenger 2 main battle tank.

4. Israeli Merkava main battle tank.

5. French Leclerc main battle tank.

6. Russian T-90 main battle tank.

7. Italian C1 Ram main battle tank.

8. Japanese Type 10 main battle tank.

9. Indian Arjun main battle tank.

10. China's Type 99 main battle tank.

China itself thinks it can be in the top three in the world, but it has not been officially ranked. As a result of the Chinese one.

is low-key, and it will only be stronger than this. The firepower and protection of the Type 99 are very good, but there is still a gap between the maneuverability and the international advanced level, because China's engine manufacturing is relatively backward. Good foreign tanks include the American M1A1 and M1A2, the German Leopard 2A6, the Japanese Type 90, the Russian T-90, the Israeli Merkava, the British Challenger, and the French Leclerc.

In fact, it's very simple The top three must be the German Leopard 2A6 American M1A2 Russian T-90 Our country can rank fourth I think so Germany, Russia, and the United States are all relatively advanced tanks They have all participated in 2 wars Among them, the American M1A2 has experienced more actual combat Tanks still mainly look at the performance on the battlefield It is useless to just look at the data But in the powerful tank, it is still given anti-tank missiles.

It can be said that the Red Arrow anti-tank ** in our country is still very smart.

Type 99 is ranked third in the world. The first is the German Leopard, the second is the American M1A2, and the Japanese Type 90 should be slightly inferior in comprehensive capabilities to the 99, ranking fourth!